Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1917 — PARTY FROCK FOR A GIRL [ARTICLE]

PARTY FROCK FOR A GIRL

Pretty and Simple Affair Which Anyone Who Can Bew Can Make. Just the prettiest little dress for a young girl’s dance Is at the same time the simplest. Anyone who can sew can make one like It at home. White China' silk and white net make the dress, and white satin ribbon trims It. There is a plain waist of silk, low In the neck and with Just a sleeve-band over the shonlders. The skirt is silk, short and full. Then over this goes the net, quite a coarse net. It is draped onto the waist, and short, full, puffed sleeves are added to the silk shoulder straps. The edges of the net are trimmed on the b<sdy and sleeves with narrow white satin ribbon run on flat, and the skirt has the same ribbon, in different widths running round in bands. The widest is used, one row of it, just a little above,the edge, then a little above that a narrower ribbon, and so on for about five rows. The only other trimming, and the only bit of color, were two little bunches of silk-made fruit, quite good-sized, with

foliage, one on the waist at the upper* $ edge, the other on the below the waistline and on the opposite side from the first bunch. Ea*ifj|| bunch had three colors, the big berrie# | in each being one of pink, one of bine, and one of yellow. The girl who wore that dainty little frock was right.